Job growth stifled by high taxes from MacLauchlan government

Charlottetown – High taxes from the MacLauchlan government are
stifling job growth for Islanders, says Kensington-Malpeque MLA and Opposition
Economic Development and Tourism Critic Matthew MacKay.

“From
September of last year to now we’ve lost 3400 full-time jobs on Prince Edward
Island. We can’t afford that. With the increase to the HST and a carbon tax on
the way the MacLauchlan government’s high tax policies will not lead to more
full-time jobs and better wages for Islanders,” says MacKay.

Newly
released data from Statistics Canada for the month of September shows another
drop of full-time jobs on Prince Edward Island. The number of full-time jobs
available dropped by 100 while the number of Islanders in the labour force
looking for work shrank by 1000. From September 2015 to September 2016 the
number of full-time jobs on Prince Edward dropped by 3400.